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Klaipeda, Lithuania
Place
Census 1939
7.285714285714286%
7,000 Jewish out of 51,000
Country Name
1918
German Empire
1919-1938
Lithuania
1938-1939
Lithuania
1939-1940
Germany
1940-1941
Germany
1941-1945
Germany
1945-1990
Lithuania (USSR)
Present
LITHUANIA
Name by Language
German
Memel,Klaipeda,<>,Lithuania
German
Memelburg,Klaipeda,<>,Lithuania
Lithuanian
Klaipeda,Klaipeda,<>,Lithuania
Polish
Klajpeda,Klaipeda,<>,Lithuania
Klaipeda
Klaipeda
Lithuania
55.713;21.137
Bibliography
Resources.tabstitle.photosvideos
- Falling Rain Global Gazetteer within www.fallingrain.com/word
- Google Maps within https://www.google.co.il/maps
- Levin, Dov, "Memel," in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, vol. 3 (New York: Macmillan, 1990), pp. 969 –971.
- Petružiene, Sada, “Die jüdische Gemeinschaft in Klaipeda/Memel,” Annaberger Annalen 16 (2008), pp. 227 –258. Available online on: http://www.annaberger-annalen.de/jahrbuch/2008/14_Die_Juedische_Gemeinschaft-web.pdf (accessed 8.5.2017)
- Rosin, Josef, “Memel / Klaipeda”, in Pinkas Hakehillot Lita (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1996), pp. 377 –385 (Hebrew).
- Yad Vashem Archives
- Yad Vashem Pinkasei Hakehillot